Dax Tejera tragically passed away on the night of December 23 and his wife Veronica Tejera was arrested just hours later.
The ABC News executive producer suffered a fatal heart attack and died suddenly. Just hours later, Veronica was booked on two counts of “acting in a manner injurious to a child,” according to Variety.
Dax and Veronica‘s two young children were reportedly left unattended inside a hotel room at the members-only hotel The Yale Club in New York City. The police said that their preliminary investigation “revealed that a 2-year-old female and a 5-month-old female were left alone inside of a hotel room for an extended period of time.”
Veronica has since released a statement in response to her arrest.
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“When Dax collapsed on December 23rd, I accompanied him in an ambulance to the hospital. I asked both a close friend and my parents to rush to my children’s hotel room to attend to them as I monitored them by camera. The hotel would not allow my friend in and instead called the NYPD,” Veronica said in a statement provided to the New York Post.
She continued, “We had two cameras trained on my children as they slept, and I monitored them closely in the time I was away from them. While the girls were unharmed, I realize that it was a poor decision.”
“Our family has suffered a terrible tragedy. I respectfully ask for privacy while my children and I mourn Dax’s death,” she concluded.
Veronica will have to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court on January 12.
